1081471 – sudo 1.8.22-1.1 Password Prompt Does Not Expand Username

Bug 1081471 - sudo 1.8.22-1.1 Password Prompt Does Not Expand Username

Summary: sudo 1.8.22-1.1 Password Prompt Does Not Expand Username

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1081470

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Product:	openSUSE Tumbleweed
Classification:	openSUSE
Component:	Basesystem (show other bugs)
Version:	Current
Hardware:	Other Other

Priority:	P5 - None Severity: Normal (vote)
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Reported:	2018-02-18 16:53 UTC by Ron Lovell
Modified:	2018-02-21 13:34 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description Ron Lovell 2018-02-18 16:53:54 UTC

The password prompt from the sudo command installed by sudo-1.8.22-1.1.x86_64 does not properly show the username for which the password is required.  Example:

lovells@ron5tum:~$ sudo -i
[sudo] password for %{p}:

Normally "%{p}" would be "lovells".  (I commented-out "Defaults targetpw"
in /etc/sudoers, so sudo(8) wants my password, not root's.)

The command otherwise works correctly, i.e. I do switch to root after entering my password.

Comment 1 Kriton Kyrimis 2018-02-18 17:53:53 UTC

Looking at the binary, I see that it contains the parameters given to configure. One of them is "--with-passprompt=[sudo] password for %{p}:", which should be "--with-passprompt=[sudo] password for %p:"

To verify this, I patched /usr/lib/sudoers.so by erasing the curly braces and adding two nulls after the colon, and now the user name is expanded correctly.

Comment 2 Antoine Belvire 2018-02-18 19:20:41 UTC

duplicate of 1081470

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1081470 ***

Comment 3 Ron Lovell 2018-02-21 13:34:02 UTC

Confirming fixed in sudo 1.8.22-2.1 in TW Snapshot 20180219. Great work, guys!